Paintbrush attachment



Quinn 01, firm fled/aid,

G BALLARD PAINTBRUSH ATTACHMENT Filed July 26.

Patented Oct. I i I I amen BALLARD, now BY mnnamen enAcn BALLARD HOWELL, or cnsrm,

-. v WYOMING.

PAINTBRUSVH 'a'rzmcnmnnzr. Application filed Jui 'ze, 192a. ,iSerial No. 653,842.

To all whom it may concern: tions all these parts of the swabber be,- Be it known that I, GRACE BALLARD, a citii'ng formed of wire.. The forks project into zen of the United States, and a resident of the rubber cup, on opposite sides of the stock 4 Casper, in the count of Natrona and the and carry rubber swabbers 6 arranged at 5 State of Wyoming, ave invented certain right angles to the forks and shaped to fit \new and useful Improvements in Paintwithin the cup and between the sides of the '50 brush Attachments, of which the following cup and the brush. They also retain" the is a specification.- greater portion of the paint dripping into This invention relates to a rubber cup the brush; a 10 attached to a paint brush stock and de To clean the cup the handle 4; is pushed signed to act as a drip cup, receiving any forwardly along the brush handle forcing paint that may flow down on the stock from. the swabbers to the open forward end of the bristles during overhead work, and inthe cupand ejecting the paint collected by eludes also a swabbing device; by means of" the cup.

'15 which the paint collecting in said cup may If it is desired toform the cup removable be returned to the brush portion. from thebrush so that it can be used with Theinvention consists .in the novel feadifferent brushes, of the same size'I emtures of construction hereinafter described, ploy a cup 7 of elastic rubber which is open pointed out in the claims and shown in the at the rear end, as shown at 8, in Figure 4.- 20 accompanying drawing, in which- This cup'is slipped over the brush. handle Figure 1 is a side elevation of-a brush, and onto the stock and is held in place by 05.

provided with my attachment. friction. It is provided with the same Figure 2 is anedge elevation of a brush, swabbing device as in the preferred form.

the cup portion of'the attachment being in The advantages of the device will be obsection. yious from the above description and draw- Figure '3 is a perspective view of the mg. swabbing device detached. What I claim is Figure 4- is a side elevation of a brush, 1. The combination with a brush, a rubshowing a modified form of attachment in her cu'p adapted to fit the brush stock, a rim 30 position to be. slipped in place on thebrush. sufficiently rigid to hold the cup open,

In the drawing A designates the usual swabbers arranged to work in the cup on paint brush which may be of any desired opposite sides of the stock, and means 'ex' size. A cup 1 of elastic rubber, or other tending along and substantially parallel to suitable material surrounds the brush at 'the brush handle for actuating the swabbers. the point of. juncture of the bristles and 2. An attachment for paint brushes comstock, and is held open at the forward end prising an elastic, normally open cup adaptby a hard rubber rim 2. At the rear or ed to engage the stock of the brush atthe bottom end the cup is secured to the stock base of the cup, swabbers arranged to work by tacks or in any other suitable manner.v in the cup-on opposite sides of the brush 40 The cleaning or swabbing device comstock, a swabber handle lying parallel to the;

prises a handle 4' which lies parallel to the brush handle,.and fork members connecting 8 brush handle, and forks 5 which lie on the swabberstosaid swabber handle. opposite sides of the brush handle and are i In testimony whereof I afiix my signature. connected to. the handle it by angled por- GRACE BALLARD. 

